When the Blue Horizon arrives at Sapphire, the last thing Theresa and Stan expect is to find people already there. The ship's been traveling sublight for over fifteen hundred years and things are falling apart. Too bad they can't make contact the people on the surface. Whoever they are.

It's the first human voyage outside the solar system, and Proxima Centauri is the destination. The sleeper ship Deep Space discovers we are not alone, and not everyone out there is nice.
Diverted to Alpha Centauri A (Rigel Kentaurus) for a faster-than-light prototype, they learn humanity is the only civilization to solve the light barrier problem. Now, they must defend it as a military secret.

Caught half-way between stars, Deepspace-2 hurtled near the speed of light damaged and unable to flip over to decelerate. Will the injured crew be able to flip the ship manually, or will they pass their destination, doomed to speed forever into the vast